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My to-be-read pile has been growing, so I decided to tackle a book today. I choose Pretty Little Liars because I thought it would be a fast read (it was, about four hours) and I thought I could get rid of it pretty quickly through PaperBackSwap (PBS) when I’d finished. It’s posted now and waiting for someone to request it.

I hadn’t heard of this book until I’d seen the commercials for the ABCFamily show based on the novels. The show didn’t look like anything I’d ever watch, and I still haven’t watched an episode all these months later, but the book description on the PBS website did sound pretty interesting, so I ordered it and it sat around for months until today.

I’m not going to waste much time on an analytical review because the book was pretty fluffy. Five girls are best friends in seventh grade, they have secrets – some more dramatic than others, one of them “disappears” and three years later the four remaining girls are being harassed through text messages and e-mails by someone who knows all their seventh grade secrets. The book ends on a cliffhanger because (SPOILER ALERT) even though the fifth friend ends up dead, the messages still keep coming and we don’t know who it is.

I think I would have loved this book back when I was in seventh grade, myself. Today, however, the book was only okay. Honestly, I could not get into the characters. They’ll all rich, self-centered, bitchy, teenage girls who care more about themselves than anyone else. I don’t really have compassion for characters who shoplift, drink copiously underage, and sleep with their teachers and older sister’s boyfriends. They must have been so rich that they had no problems and decided to make up some for themselves. Honestly.

What surprised me when I read the book flap about the author, is that she says she based it on her own upbringing. I felt sad for her, then, that this was how she was brought up. Her picture was kind of smirky, too.

I probably won’t read the next book. I want to know who “A” is, but not enough to actually read the following seven books to find out. I’ll try Google instead.

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On 01.02.10 I married Chris, a medical student at Ross University. Being a Ross Wife means you never know where in the world you'll be in six months. We have a furbaby named Mittens and someday I will be a domestic goddess.